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1. Search for Box Drive content from Explorer/Finder Search

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   83 comments  ·  Help shape the future of Box » Box Drive  ·  Delete…  ·  Admin →
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   not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

   We are currently not planning to implement this feature and will continue to prevent all Box Drive results from appearing in Explorer/Finder searches.

   Box Drive does not download the all of the metadata (File name, folder structure, etc.) of your Box content. Instead, it is downloaded on demand and then evicted when it is no longer relevant. This eviction process is not visible to users and it is not easily predictable. This would cause the search results in Explorer/Finder to be inconsistent for users – sometimes they would find a file and other times they may not if the metadata and file were evicted.

   We have chosen not to download all of the metadata (and then keep it up to date with changes) as this can result in a large performance, storage and bandwidth tax which is not scalable – especially in environments where users interface with millions of files/folders.

   We will continue to improve the Box Drive Search experience as well as add in additional features in the future to help you access your Box content quickly!

   We are currently not planning to implement this feature and will continue to prevent all Box Drive results from appearing in Explorer/Finder searches.

   Box Drive does not download the all of the metadata (File name, folder structure, etc.) of your Box content. Instead, it is downloaded on demand and then evicted when it is no longer relevant. This eviction process is not visible to users and it is not easily predictable. This would cause the search results in Explorer/Finder to be inconsistent for users – sometimes they would find a file and other times they may not if the metadata and file were evicted.

   We have chosen not to download all of the metadata (and then keep it up to date with changes) as this can result in a large performance, storage and bandwidth tax which is not scalable – especially in environments where users interface with millions of files/folders.

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   Anonymous commented  ·  October 22, 2019  ·  Delete…

   We were absolutely bamboozled that native search on the Mac is not supported by Box.
   Like…what!?! I have to be connected to the internet just to search even local files???

   In addition, the ability to search natively is key when you have an idea of where something is and want search a particular folder. It's also key for browsing a search visually.

   Use case:
   1. I know an image exists somewhere below a given parent "Images" folder, but I don't know what the name is
   2. In Finder I can do a Spotlight search within the parent folder for 'images' that will search all subfolders at that level
   3. I can then put the results into icon view, sort by whatever criteria I choose, scale the thumbnails up, put the window into fullscreen view and quickly find the image I'm looking for by scanning them visually.

   This is not possible with Box's search, whether via the Box Drive search modal or on the website

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   Anonymous supported this idea  ·  October 22, 2019